Cracks, by Jane Ellen Glasser
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The art of Kintsugi, using gold to fill cracks or mend shards in Japanese ceramics, suggests that when a thing has been damaged by time, it becomes more beautiful. So, too, for human experience, offers Jane Ellen Glasser. In her sixth poetry collection, the tone is one of gratitude; Glasser treats even serious subjects, such as late love and life’s end, with wit and a light hand. In her 70th year, Glasser does not bemoan aging, but, rather chooses to acknowledge, even celebrate the inevitable accidents of experience that grow a life. In the closing poem, she offers guidance to her future eulogist. Just as the Japanese cracked pot is imperfectly perfect, she tells us how she wants to be remembered: “Say I was perfectly flawed. / Say I was human.”
Cracks, by Jane Ellen Glasser - Amazon Sales Rank: #1122775 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .8" w x 6.00" l, .13 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 34 pages
Cracks, by Jane Ellen Glasser From the Author The art of Kintsugi, using gold to fill cracks or mend shards in Japanese ceramics, suggests that when a thing has been damaged by time, it becomes more beautiful. So, too, for human experience, offers Jane Ellen Glasser in her chapbook "Cracks," her sixth poetry collection. In the title poem, the speaker states: "Don't give me perfection/ immune to clocks" as "[e}very scar is a door/ opening onto/a larger room." In her 70th year, Glasser does not bemoan aging, but, rather chooses to acknowledge, even celebrate the inevitable accidents of experience that grow a life. Through her familiar technique of using nature as a lens for understanding human nature, like Daphne transformed into a laurel, she aspires, to be rooted while "reaching for the sun." In the opening poem "Soloist," the speaker identifies with the mourning dove, perched atop a roof's ridge, where solitude serves as a kind of oil for releasing the poet's song. Whether eavesdropping on birds, out for a walk, or cataloguing her favorite places, she recreates nature with vivid, often surprising imagery that invites the reader to enter the scene. Another source of inspiration is art. In several ekphrastic poems, paintings ramify for both pleasure and discovery. In fact, a hallmark of Glasser's work is to start writing without any preconceived idea of where an image will take her. "Bella Donna," prompted by a painting of a woman reclined on a bed of nightshade leaves on a "plain of death," closes with the irony of her having never been more "truly alive." Although lines may reference Sartre, Kierkegaard, Rilke, Shakespeare, the poems are never esoteric. It is the ordinary, the commonplace seen as extraordinary, which interests this poet. Hearing aids, sewing machines, squirrels on a tin roof, brooms and mops are the stuff she bags. And the performance of her subjects is delivered in clear, accessible poem after poem. A master of craft, she moves comfortably between open and traditional form, allowing subject to dictate. Unlike her darker earliest work, the tone of "Cracks" is one of gratitude, treating even subjects as serious as late love and life's end, with wit and a light hand. In the closing poem "Last Wishes" she offers guidance to her future eulogist. Just as the Japanese cracked pot is imperfectly perfect, she states how she wants to be remembered: "Say I was perfectly flawed. / Say I was human."(The above was written by me, Jane, finding it helpful to use the 3rd person to create a cohesive description of poems I wrote and rewrote over a period of more than 2 years. Gone is the high pitch of youth's drama, the love affair with darkness, and the confessional absorption. However, whatever my subject, a bird, a landscape, a painting, these poems, too, are autobiographical, telling the truth, only "slant"--as Emily Dickinson would say.)
From the Back Cover "Cracks," a new chapbook by Jane Ellen Glasser, is astonishing for its freshness. Musical and witty, its predilections ranging from Sartre and Greek myth to a singing dove and two Labs, all rendered with accuracy and deep feeling. Hope rises here, as in the title poem: "Each crack / is a door opening / onto a larger room." -- Grace Schulman The title and the opening quote by Leonard Cohen, "There is a crack in everything/ that's how the light gets in," are absolutely perfect for this little book by Jane Ellen Glasser. The poems are deceptively simple, such as "What She Longed For," which is a series of fragmented sentences. It begins, "To slip out of her past/ the way an unzipped dress/puddles to the floor." Glasser is a consummate artist, in her surprising metaphors and similes, in what she says and what she does not say. Think of "a roadside intoxicated/with poppies" in "For the Love of Certain Spaces." Sometimes the clue to the poem is in the title, and the poem is filled with wonderful, specific detail. I want to quote everything, and read "Cracks" again and again. --Jane Blue, author, "Blood Moon" Frequently brilliant, not only as poetry, "Cracks" explodes language into rainbows of light and meaning. I held my breath. The applause you hear is the sound of Jane Ellen Glasser being recognized as one of the finest poets in America. Her work has always had beauty and muscle; now it's growing in ways impossible to define. --Robert P. Arthur, author, "Black Gum Against Thunder" Jane Ellen Glasser writes with an artist's eye and heart, alive to the "moon's watermark / on a brightening sky," "a shoreline's give and take / over which a pelican / pulls a strong of pelicans." This book celebrates contentment: "Don't give me / perfection," she writes, pleased to be "happily flawed ... human." Like all of Glasser's poetry, these new pieces are sure-handed and moving. But when love comes "out of a seeming nowhere like a slow-developing sheet / of film," the surprise stretches her lines, simile upon gorgeous simile, into a sonnet of easy, fully felt eloquence. Cracks will reward reading after reading! --Jay Paul, poet, "The Last Monument"In her new collection, Glasser sees the world with acute awareness, moving outside the human realm, like a "solitary bird" seeking out reflections of self in nature's mirror. Without apprehension she walks "the bridge between clocked time" - opens windows "to let [her] spirit play/set her senses singing" with an irrepressible energy that encourages the reader to find within the verses a fragmented life's story "no longer ruled by appetite" - ready to be explored. -- Michal Mahgerefteh, poet & publisher of Poetica
About the Author Jane Ellen Glasser’s poetry has been published in numerous journals, such as The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Georgia Review. Glasser co-founded the nonprofit arts organization and journal New Virginia Review. She has delivered various presentations and workshops to audiences as diverse as students in the Poet-in-the-Schools Program and jail inmates. She won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry for Light Persists (2005) and the Poetica Publishing Chapbook Contest for The Long Life (2011). Cracks is her sixth poetry collection.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Jane Ellen Glasser looks at life so clearly--with honesty and ... By Mary Jean Kledzik Jane Ellen Glasser looks at life so clearly--with honesty and originality. This gives a sense of newness and youth, yet with the wisdom of a thoughtful, grateful, and wise woman. Seneca wrote, "As long as you live, keep learning how to live." These poems show how she does this!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. dedicated to "her greatest creation", her daughter Hara By Charles Lyonhart Jane Ellen Glasser is a true artist in every sense of the word. True to herself, her writing and mostly true to her readers. Her newest poetry collection, titled "Cracks", dedicated to "her greatest creation", her daughter Hara, is one of the most moving and profound group of poems that you will ever read. Jane has been writing for her entire life and she is good! A seasoned writer Jane writes from experience and she's been there. In "Now That I Am Old", she writes, "No one escapes the indifferent flame, earth's hunger. Open the gates of the asylum, the prison. I will take my chances." You will not be taking any chances reading her work. Her work is brilliant, witty, fresh, lyrical, moving and Jane paints a vivid portrait of life as it is and as she perceives it.I cannot say enough good things about Jane's writing, she moves like a sleek shadow between the realms of reality and dreams. In the closing poem of "Cracks" she writes, "Let me live again to mine the earth in the belly of a worm." It doesn't get any better than that!Charles LyonhartSongwriter and Performer
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Bringer of light By VaDogLover It's through cracks in a life that light enters like a minotaur. Jane Ellen Glasser has always been wise, and internally elegant, or at least as long as I've known her--years. There's a muscularity to her, a bravery in the face of shattered vases that makes her gluey. "Nothing is happening in the world of her room/ The ivories lie still as teeth in a jar.'' Edges are hard, cracks deep. The world tells Jane secrets. "The river frozen to the shore's lip speaks less..." No weeping here, only, in your face, learning. Break the rock, find the sermon, but "sermons not really the right word. Maybe "instruction" is. "Each crack /is a door opening /onto a larger room." Frequently brilliant, not only as poetry, Cracks explodes into rainbows of light and meaning. I held my breath. The applause you hear is the sound of Jane Ellen Glasser being recognized as one of the finest poets in America.
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